p.u.r.e. calls for common UN/DARE/STANDING! in the subway station Birkenstraße. We embark on a journey through the topography of the station, during which we stop again and again. Silence and lack of purpose make space for an unprejudiced and insatiable interest in the wealth of details of this location: its diversity of sounds, textures, rhythms, flows, atmospheres and performances. We survey the field delineated by movement and standstill, ritual and routine, speed and duration, norm and deviation, freedom and submission. Can we poetically and politically oppose the functional constraints transmitted in public transport – as well as its absurdities, miscalculations, glitches and obstacles – by indulging all our senses in this transit-(non)-place while using it without rhyme or reason? We are trying to subvert and to escape the city while staying right in the middle.

p.u.r.e. – Jagna Anderson, Dodi Helschinger, María Ferrara, Susanne Soldan, Karine Thomas
In cooperation with the Project Birkenstraße, led and curated by Linus Lütcke and Matthias Gerber in the context of their ZK/U residency at “Ständige Vertretung!”.
Graphic documentation / mapping of UN/DARE/STANDING! in collaboration with Lorenz Huchthausen.